(Treat this as a customer discovery phase)<p>After searching for some non-trivial amount of time I have yet to find a good review site/blog that caters to books of interest to the start up community. Since we're always strapped for time, I wonder whether it would help to create a site that would serve as a hub for these book reviews.<p>The core value here isn't just the reviews themselves but other related resources - TED talks, slides, HN discussion threads, case studies, links to "I used the advice in this book and this was my experience" articles, etc.<p>A peripheral value here is this site/blog would be indexed, categorized and of course searchable.
<a href="http://www.hackerbooks.com/book/learning-python-3rd-edition/0596513984" rel="nofollow">http://www.hackerbooks.com/book/learning-python-3rd-edition/...</a><p><a href="http://bibliotechnical.com/books/learning-python" rel="nofollow">http://bibliotechnical.com/books/learning-python</a><p>I made the latter; the problem I ran into was generating quality reviews and related information. I found it was going to take a lot of manual curation to get good results.<p>HN is also a tough crowd for this kind of project, I think you would be more profitable trying to optimize for people searching for 'java book' instead of those looking for the 'best java book given that I know how to program and know these other languages'.
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.goodreads.com/</a> already exists. It simply lacks a strong HN-focused community. As others pointed out, we also have hn-books.com.
We already have hn-books.com and, IIRC, at least one competitor.<p>The transparent commerciality (bit.ly -> Amazon affiliate links) turns me off, but others may think otherwise.